Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for September 15th from 09:00 to 12:51:

• Slow – Jay Bushman – Medium –
• ctrl-gce/README.md at master · minimaxir/ctrl-gce · GitHub – Pay, generation is at 2 tokens per second, I can write at over 150 words a minute! I’ll be fine!
• GitHub – minimaxir/ctrl-gce: Set up the CTRL text-generating model on Google Compute Engine with just a few console commands. –
• Volkswagen’s bold plan to create a new car operating system | Ars Technica – “For instance, some models simply won't run if the infotainment system is broken; the navigation GPS provides the vehicle's master time counter, and without that, the powertrain won't function.”
• Meet the Quds 1 –
• Weeknote 37/2019 | Open Educational Thinkering –
• GitHub – salesforce/ctrl: Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation (https://einstein.ai/presentations/ctrl.pdf) –